Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Grumblevolcano Man, some of ya'll really think The Witcher 3 is a thing on Switch? I just can't see it.

Mario + Rabbids 2 would be AMAZING. I'd absolutely buy it at launch, despite how quickly Ubisoft games drop in price. The original is such a fantastic exclusive.

@Arbor I agree. Switch Mini would make a ton of sense this year.

A Switch Pro? Eh. I think they'll push that out a bit until they really have to release one.

@Ralizah yeah, definitely not expecting a switch pro before 2020, probably 2021 tbh. i actually really hope the mini drops this year, because i’m leaving for college this fall and i know my dad wants a switch so we can play together while i’m away, but he’s having trouble justifying the cost for something he won’t use too often.

Hoping we get some new joycon colors. It's baffling they don't have 50+ different combinations by now as I'm sure they'd make a killing!

And put me down for more Mario Rabbids too. First game was so fantastic, literally the first strategy game I actually had a good time with!

@Arbor I'm confident Switch Mini will release this year by the time Poke is out.

They gotta fix that stick drift first.

@Ralizah @Grumblevolcano

Yeah, The Witcher III port is the hottest rumor for Switch third party games going into E3. We've had Chinese listings that were pulled down. Some CD Projekt Red employees have listed "Nintendo Switch experience" on their LinkedIn profiles. Various YouTube channels have shown PCs running pared-down specs similar to the Tegra X1 being capable of running the game at 540p 30fps.

My only question is would they compress the game far enough to fit on a cartridge? The Witcher III is a 50GB+ game on PS4. Even if it were down-rezzed, with cutscenes removed, would they fit it on a 16GB cartridge? Because I doubt CD Projekt Red would pay extra for a 32GB cartridge, which means this would be a $60 game with a mandatory download like Mortal Kombat XI.

Even though The Witcher III is my favorite game on this generation of consoles I don't pay full price for these half digital, half physical releases.

Pokemon bundles make more sense to me. If let's go got that, I would imagine a main game will get the same. Quite possibly the accessories are as well.

Because even flat lands have variations in them, with rocks, tufts of grass and bushes etc. Those areas don't look and feel smooth, which the wild area did. (That is btw one of my complaints with fire emblem as well)

In botw they added more details, but they sacrificed variations instead. Many places look and feel the same.

@Magician Gwent and/or Thronebreaker wouldn't really surprise me, tbh. They seem like an ideal fit for the system, and they'd give CDProjektRed a foot in Nintendo's door, so to speak.

Maybe an accessory is another chat mic for Animal Crossing 😂

@Ryu_Niiyama youre 100% right, I think we are on our 5th pair now, meanwhile my launch Ds4s are fine 6 years later

^ I'm using the drift in mine as an excuse to play less video games. They rot your brain kids!

@redd214 Ouch, that's expensive. I'm so glad I've never had a controller fail on me before. I guess I'm just incredibly lucky.

@Octane yeah it's a pain. First couple sets I just chalked it up to my kids being clumsy but when my personal Joycons (that the have never even touched) started doing the same thing, makes me think they're just fragile in general. Never had issues with any others, even my original nes controllers from 1990 still work!

Agreed. I feel like it is the size and durability of the parts that cause the issue, but I'm not sure how Nintendo is going to fix it. The joycons are too expensive to keep fixing (I sent in my first pair and they didn't fix them) so I'm going to try the aftermarket parts eventually. But I'm going to be working more so I won't worry about it for now.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin looks really good. I never finished Citizens of Earth but I liked it enough to buy the sequel day one.

I had a tad bit of drift crop up in my launch joycons a few months back. Canned air, aggressive recalibration, and plain luck seems to have mostly addressed the issue.

Some peoples keep complaining about Open World details. 🤨
Pokemon Sword / Shield have their own Open World style, maybe less details than BOTW, but who cares?
Kids will not noticed too many details on every environments.
As long the gameplay is interesting, they will not complaining on every single things.

@Ryu_Niiyama that sucks. Nintendo should definitely try to fix the joycons before they release a "pro" model.

^ personally I'd rather see a shorter console cycle with a Switch 2 rather than a minor upgrade for full price. I miss when the console launch...was the console launch and not the bandaid/early adopter beta until the real version comes out.

@JaxonH Sorry if I buzz-killed you at all, honestly not my intent. I wasn't being completely literal when I said Sw/Shi looked like a 3DS game, I was referring to the sense I was getting from it that it seemed it was just a 3DS Pokémon engine with a prettier skin and (a bit) more freedom of movement. And Dynamax.

In March 2017 Nintendo gave us a 2015/16 Wii U game that shook the world with it's art style, physics engine and sense of freedom, and 2 and half years later Gamefreak can only muster a free camera in a particular zone... SMH.

I'm not part of the Pokémon hardcore - I've only accrued about 25 hours of main series play (all in the last 4 years) - but I like the IP and just struggle to accept the lack of ambition in the game design.

As for Fire Emblem 3H, we'll just have to agree to disagree. I've no doubt that gameplay-wise it will be very engaging, but I'm genuinely a bit taken aback at how little effort seems to have gone into the visuals.